[000:00:00;00] live . on r.t. this morning makes a comeback because russia's head of state for the. promise is reforms over the next sixty years but i've been very good on the streets of moscow just ahead of you know great opposition protesters clashed with police i'll be alive for you with more details just. also making headlines this morning bahrain arrests a human rights activist just days before his interview with julian assange and yes on this channel you can watch the expose to show throughout the day on tuesday. and

nicolas sarkozy falls under the weight of france's mounting debt is socialist leader. grabs the presidency spelling change for the eurozone now. hello it's ten am monday morning here in moscow this is our team my name is kevin know it in our top story for you this morning vladimir putin returns to russia's top job he'll officially be back at the helm and later on today after he's sworn into office for a third it follows his four year stint as prime minister let's talk to our t's and listen now if she's down outside the morning for us to bring us up to date before of course our full program takes the air in about an hour and a half's time and this either the seventy said the kickoff as i said shortly but despite majority vote in the march election there's been

a fair amount of opposition to putin's reelection isn't there. there has never before have russians really been this active in politics as we've seen since september when vladimir putin announced that he was coming back to the kremlin in december we saw a vast movement really pick up pace for free and fair elections after the duma vote there were claims of vast fraud but on sunday just before of the election what we saw for the first time was really the movement which before that was very peaceful and festive turned violent a lot of people are saying that it's due to the fact that a couple of more radical opposition leaders started to provoke the situation by calling for a sit in and then some young men mostly started to provoke vast situation by very different versions of what happened but we heard smoke grenades molotov cocktails definitely pictures you can see clear provocations there but this it's important to point out is the first time really that we've seen any kind of violence and this is

a movement that has been was growing at least sadly it's it was expected to sort of lose a little bit of steam before the inauguration because what experts say is there needs to be some kind of event to bring them together but i want to talk about this more now with sergei snow ok he's a political analyst let's talk about those protests you were there i understand what do you see while let me say that he does very confusing and initially there was more any hint that a different. violent clashes it was a hundred percent peaceful demonstration and people better locks and smiling i could never imagine but we will see those really are riots and clashes so let me tell you what i'm saying this is a president who's highly sympathetic to the protesters probably percent of those people who. want to fight no one else didn't want any fight and added to the confusion that part of the people were already standing near the

porty and they were expecting for the meeting to start it. but they were no opposition leaders so all in all what we have seen that opposition leaders they behave like naughty boys they get city in and they said they will go to the podium . so that's why this is where we were when it confusing and contradictory and we have seen that produce has not faded away. as a social basis for that but. there are no relieve this spoil our parents of developments and this is the problem and despite obviously putin has a good amount of support if you want in a landslide across the country moscow st petersburg has been the focus of these protests. still even some of his supporters say we need to see putin reinvent himself he's been that the how much of the country for too long this will be his third term back in the kremlin do you think we'll see any concrete changes while

now just hours before the inauguration there's still an ongoing debate in the contradict the old what sort of we will see. the question is still up in the air but let me tell you that definitely putin is a national leader will somehow just to. prove. that. we crossed all those not only disenchanted. but of the middle class which was just driving force in this and. he will have used his charm offensive he can do that but of course it will require additional do you expect any changes in terms of foreign policy a lot of anti-american rhetoric for instance leading up to the election how is that going to play into relations with the u.s. you know everywhere in the world or predilection or rhetoric and when it comes to real politics of the different things. i think that putin mostly is that pragmatic

and he will build up his foreign policy on russia's national interest i don't think that he will just see that the. clash with the united states western world i don't want to recall the stories we experience but i don't think that we can really needs that at the same time when we come to highly sensitive uses like a.b.m. to play deployment to. your ally. like iran of course. try to articulate russia's position and. at one point we will disagree with the americans other point we will disagree with them but this is part and parcel of all foreign poles right just an hour or so two hours to be exact before vladimir putin officially becomes the president of russia one thing again just to bring you up to date on what's happening with those protests at least in terms of social networks the buzz on twitter is that some kind of movement will be at least trying to make

its way towards square where we are just in front of the kremlin how that's going to play out in terms of security on inauguration day hard to tell but certainly there is a feeling that anything could happen with russian politics being so alive lately kevin back to you indeed. in from the kremlin part of a team of course who are going to bring you comprehensive coverage throughout the morning as the inauguration gets underway. indeed the main event will happen in coverage starts now in the home of. so many inside the kremlin for us now there are correspondents and. good morning to give us a taste of what's to come for those lucky enough to be attending this all ceremony yes i'm one in one of the three holes where the solemn ceremony. present will take place to go to the city hall there a beautiful one just have already started arriving here we're expecting somewhere between two and three thousand guests to attend this ceremony now the old boss and

the security checks and to this particular hole of the kremlin the very many people there but still it is the queue. it's going quite fast now we understand that the ceremony will kick off and just less than two hours about midday moscow time both the outgoing president midway to find the president elect and will and to the kremlin territory the whole inauguration process in fact will take less than less than two hours the just as it's whatever of the short ceremony understand the president is very different the outgoing president will hand over the attributes of presidential power to what he would put in that is certainly a huge very expensive presidential medal with the names of all russian presidents on it then we understand that and will meet the kremlin's regiment and then he will also attend the service his new presidential term will be blessed by the part of the russian orthodox church now certainly many v.i.p. guests will be here when the stand that the legendary acts of the former governor of california arnold schwarzenegger is one of them also we understand that putin's

close friends former prime minister of italy. and german former german chancellor gerhard schroeder were also attend the ceremony as well as certainly thousands of different members of intelligentsia artists great pressure to overture and so definitely a very mixed and very interesting crowd will be here all of this ceremony will be certainly followed by a very posh dinner inside the kremlin with some of the things on the menu already been made published by the presidential press service so we understand that the main the main aspect of it will be national russian food and certainly the thousands of guests will be here they will have some delicacies during this dinner certainly we here we are waiting for the ceremony to happen when both the outgoing president and the president elect will enter the building and we will certainly bring you all the latest details from inside the crime levels absolutely looking forward to the thanks very much on this and when he was

a said little bit later thank you both. so big day here in russia big day in france as well francois hollande is defeated nicolas sarkozy in the french presidential runoff making him the latest e.u. lady to be swept aside with a crippling debt crisis among the first steps the president elect is planning is to push back against german led to stare at images chance trying to merkel's already

invited along to berlin for talks but they'll be interesting this talk to a. paris force morning test how france waking up to the news that it's all change at the top this morning. right now it's very quiet because they had big celebrations last night b.-f. last steel was certainly having a big party all through the morning until the morning it was a symbolic place is for us all and is the first president to take office since transform it around did the same in one thousand nine hundred eighty one let me just quickly show you some of the papers today so here you have first of all on president on the figaro and another newspaper branching the fact that they have a new president now first of all and in his acceptance speech yesterday did talk a lot about unity which is which has been much of the theme of his entire campaign he said he's the one who's going to bring about solidarity and unity in criticizing sarkozy's divisive presidency but of course the unity he's talking about does hinge on his ability to bring about the promises that he had made particularly the practical promises of jobs and employment and this is

a no easy feat given the the economic circumstances of france said again he the first thing he wanted to do is to talk to german chancellor angela merkel to push for this growth or yentl approach and he has a lot of supporters on this approach however even the supporters are skeptical as to how much he can really do given the constraints i mean france is a part of the euro zone there are sixteen other nations who are using this currency there are a lot of rules to be followed and so they're looking at how much maneuver room he really has but at the end of the day a socialist when in france he was pushing for a different direction for europe is a symbolic has a symbolic significance to the rest of the country at the rest of the continent that is that of course the citizens in much of the european countries have already said enough and it is enough when it comes to a sturdy driven measures imposed so far by the e.u. of course a domestic issue taking priority for the french people now what about foreign policy though any big changes on the horizon. well if you look at the camp

a they haven't been really talking about it that much and that's understandable given that jobs is a top of the sort of the french people however france while out will have a lot of it on his plate in the next a few weeks when it comes to international dealings there's going to be the nato summit and he had said that he wants to pull out french troops from afghanistan a year earlier than planned he will have to and he's expected to present this blood to president barack obama and the rest of the nato alliance and also when it comes to issues like syria iran observers are saying that we may expect a less aggressive france wherever this observation is based on the rhetoric so far so of course we have to see the actions that this new president will be taking now french people at the end of the day said that they voted for change but let's not forget that when nicolas sarkozy was voted in two thousand and seven they also voted for change so it's for us all and does have a lot of work to do ahead of him and prove that he does the service presidency here briefly want to react to her sarkozy. well and nicolas sarkozy has wished to france all

a lot of good luck i suppose saying that while you have really a lot of work to do i he had gone through a tough time in self but he did say that he had to give it all his his fight he had put up a good fight however did not manage because there's a majority of the french people he says he will still fight a role in a politics although he didn't make it clear exactly what he's going to be doing service a grateful thanks for your help today that you're a correspondent on the line from paris. time's a roving correspondent told me clashes over foreign policy are expected both in europe and overseas. but buy me a cozy now we smith so whole and only eternal front in europe you'll be trying to call this merkel that this all stare at that business is drowning europe and only external frot hill coordinate with the brics say look another week to change the

whole system is to try to change the financial system as it works and this is where obama in the hole will clash head on in spite of all of them a sympathy for all around for the left in france and for the left in europe in general i learned once a renegotiation of the financial arrangement in the world and that means the end of the u.s. dollar as a reserve currency the greeks want the same thing in now they have an ally inside the european union that happens to be one of the motors of the european you know so expect major fireworks inside europe and across the world as well now we'll be reporting it of course now still ahead guns and votes syria's holding its first parliamentary election in decades after president assad adopted a new constitution for the opposition valves to boink the vote calling it a farce. bahraini authorities have arrested the country's main human rights

activist has been one of the leaders of the uprising there now bill rogers was detained late saturday on his arrival from lebanon now this comes just days before his appearance on julian a sunday show here on our table with a whistleblower quizzed him and an egyptian activist over the revolutions in the arab states have a bennett's got the details for you. well the authorities have said is that now bill run job is being suspected of committing a number of crimes punishable by law and that he's now being held on charges of inciting and taking part in a legal demonstrations and should be remembered though that position has landed him in a number of made in the target even of the bahraini authorities before because he is a highly prominent activist there and also one of the most vocal outspoken critics of the country's ruling family and that's really what makes this next step so you enough times is so significant because this is thought to be. the last interview before his latest arrest now is considered one of the heroes of the first protests

that took place in bahrain last february he's now got over one hundred forty thousand followers on twitter disease the head of the bahrain youth center for human rights and he's really the driving force behind the mass demonstrations that we're still seeing in the streets of bahrain despite a government ban on on public protests since it became known that he was appearing on sanjay and that's that's what he elaborates on in this next episode when i said in my twitter account that i'm going to meet julian assange and i'm going to. give you program my house was surrounded by almost one hundred policemen and. machine guns and i did realize that i was not at home didn't do you just to. you to tell me to come to depopulation prosecutor today at four o'clock where i am here so the very day that he was summoned by the public prosecutor's office in bahrain he actually chose instead to appear on as angie's talk show and and appear on t.v.

using the platform as an international platform even to criticize the regime in bahrain and it's for this reason they do last stanage things why he's been arrested basically by peering on the. russia would indeed be risking a great deal but even so. he that he would be willing to pay any consequences that come of it because he says he would be fighting in the name of democracy this is what he had to say it's not dishonest but this is destroying this is the freedom disses democracy that we are fighting for as a cost and we have to be a discourse and the course might be very expensive as we have been caused by when we were willing to bid for the changes that we are fighting for now one of the other guests this week on a do not show is another prominent activists in the in the arab spring his name is our abdel fattah he was a he was highly influential figure in the uprising in egypt last year in tahrir square that like right up to has become

a target of your thora tease the fact that julian assange is seeking to the very people who are making lethal things happen in these countries and are willing to face the consequences as we've seen with now bill right now with his arrest this weekend well that really that's what makes this next episode really one that's not to be missed and you can catch it here marty being so now at eleven thirty g.m.t. this tuesday. to speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain for the revolution failed was a leadership with a revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. well we hope to find out more thoughts about that tomorrow than in the program now patrick hemmings and editor of the website in for was dot com he says now bill stands out among other activists and organizations are actually being unbiased. mr

rajab is significant figure in the human rights movement globally no bill has been arrested in the past has been detained has been beaten possibly tortured so this should come as no surprise now that the western press is out of the country so there's less of an opportunity for them to to really zero in on some of the human rights abuses that the bahraini government has become very well known for you can also tell a legitimate human rights worker or human rights organization from a manipulative one if they're criticizing a u.s. or british how why they're more likely to be a legitimate human rights organization and not manipulated one so mr rajoy because i believe he is guys finger on the pulse of genuine human rights situation in bahrain when you're criticizing a u.s. ally like bahrain if you're in the press you're not going to be given the air time as much as you would if you're criticizing the assad government that's why this will wash away within days or weeks syria is holding a parliamentary election today amid

a shaky cease fire the first such vote in decades allows the formation of political factions to compete with the ruling baath party the opposition's already urged a boycott saying it is president assad to tend to cling to power rather than a willingness for reform but not see sarah first reports next many in syria say it's the best time for both sides to lay down arms. damascus right now is a sea of faces with campaign pastis plastering the city for weeks more than seven thousand candidates by take on a enough public support to win one of the two hundred fifty seats available at thirty years old luis sorry says he feels he's the voice of the young here and wants to bring that into the political sphere. now in syria we have some problem it's a problem of people wanting to make things really democratic everyone must go and choose someone who can speak about this problem for people in this parliament but the elections have been criticised not least being held during

a period of extreme instability in the country that is really completely nonsense to a right. and the current circumstances in the country the country cannot provide security to people and to many cities and villages and towns seven danis one of these towns not far from damascus before the crisis it was a popular holiday spot but over the course of the conflict is an area that's seen this fighting with control switching from the government to the free syrian army and then back again in many ways he is continuing strong resistance to the regime has been a declaration of what they want it's. a free army. to fight again with the government. safety. you know maybe maybe maybe maybe anytime the army has come in your house and take you.

outside. of these houses some people sleep in the. amounts the price paid for its resistance has been high following the un observers we find the population the human legends of the last thing on their minds here inside of danielle is full you've got a mark of the election campaign they stood in front of. the place you've got the faces of people who died during the conflict one boy just thirteen years old. many lies been lost dave because the conflict in syria is part of the reason many people are now desperate to seel sides lay down their arms a result of this conflict and love the way the killing does not there's not a solution talking because they. should start i suppose.

this will be the opposition's boycotted the elections left little that discussion here the opposition should have pretty supposed to have requested some sort of monitoring monitoring teams in order to. scrutinize the elections and the results of the elections this does not happen it is one of the mistakes of the opposition did not purchase a period which is one of the mistakes of the government does not encourage the opposition lack of consultation on the part of the government and lack of participation from the opposition seriously dented any chance that this will bring about any credible change something everyone in this country does but you know because of the loss of. we are fighting each other not to use words but with bullets and this is you know. syria. the check in a few stories at r.t. dot com this morning in hot water around slamming google from leaving the persian

gulf nameless. find out what could be motivating the internet join on our web site also controversy surrounding john pictures of stalin placed on public buses in russia on the eve of victory day it's not going down while you can read all about that and our team. around the world in brief ten twenty five moscow time a senior al qaeda chief been killed in an air strike in yemen he was wanted for his role in the bombing of the u.s.s. cole. goal of the year two thousand which at the time resulted in the deaths of seventeen u.s. sailors at least one other man was also killed in sunday's air raids in addition to being one of the most wanted terrorists in yemen the f.b.i. offered a five million dollar reward for information leading to his capture. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton's arrived in india for diplomatic talks all oil is the focus of a visit is delhi publicly rejected western sanctions on iran choosing to continue to buy fuel from the state and whether the government's been pushing for

a reduction in imports before sanctions come into effect and make trade increasingly more difficult the u.s. is ramping up the pressure on iran over its nuclear program. in pakistan thousands of calls for the prime minister to resign after his recent conviction for contempt of court last month the country's supreme court brought charges against use of killarney for refusing to reopen all corruption case against the president he was found guilty but given only a token sentence people accuse the government of working to try to hide its own corruption and not to allow the judiciary to become tainted. a tornado has hit eastern japan it's killed one person injured dozens the city of around sixty clomid the comet is from tokyo to be the worst affected take of these pictures here the severe winds caused a major power outage this cause a housing sea flattened. monday morning sports still ahead fear the football season is reaching its climax in europe there's been plenty of twists and turns this last

weekend and who's got all the latest on that for you and in a couple of minutes as well we're also talking to the medium of veterans presidential aide about the future development of russia that's after i've updated

you on this morning's headlines from moscow just three minutes from now. right fifty two meters. away more than a thousand tons it's. skin thickness thirty centimeters the guinness record. commemorating the battle of stalingrad. the